Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859

Brandão, Marianna, Coelho-Filho, Petronio Alves & Tavares, Marcos, 2012, A review of the genus Speocarcinus Stimpson, 1859 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with a key to its species and the description of one new species, Zootaxa 3327, pp. 1-19 : 6-10

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Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859
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Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859

( Figs. 1A–B View FIGURE 1. A – B, D, E ; 3B; 4A, D; 5B; 6B; 8B)

Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859: 59 .

Speocarcinus carolinensis – Faxon 1895: 236; Rathbun 1901: 11; 1918: 39; Tesch 1918: 46; Holthuis 1959: 235; Serène 1964: 194; Guinot 1969: 707; Felder 1973: 71; Powers 1977: 116; Herbst et al. 1978: 993; Williams 1984: 437; Camp et al. 1998: 148; Ng et al. 2008: 201; Brandão et al. 2010: 137.

Material examined. United States, North Carolina, Eastward, st. E2–77–259, 35 °02’24” S–075°W, vi.1977, G. Herbst det.: 1 male cl 10 mm, cw 14 mm ( USNM 180101), st. E2–77–253, 35 °02’18” S–075°W, vi.1977, G. Herbst det.: 1 female cl 8 mm, cw 10.8 mm ( USNM 180100), st. E2–77–257, 35 °03’30” N– 075°25’42”W, 14.viii. 1977, 36 m, 1 female ( USNM 180098) (G. Herbst det.), st. E 5–77–13, 34°34’54” S – 075°10’30”W, 4.viii. 1977, 34 m, G. Herbst det.: 1 female cl 8 mm, cw 10.5 mm ( USNM 180099). Florida, near Crescent Beach, 29o45’30”N – 0 81o 14’25”W, P. Webster coll., 26.v. 1991, 7 m, A.W. Williams det.: 1 male cl 2.9 mm, cw 3.9 mm ( USNM 251311). Florida, Dry Tortuga I., st. 9–31, W. Schmitt coll., 21.vi.1931: 2 juv. males ( USNM 71011).

Puerto Rico, 18o30’24”N – 66o4’15”W, Johnson-Smithsonian Exp. coll., st. 10, 2.ii. 1933, 182 m: 1 juv. male ( USNM 67779). Off Porto Real, Fish Hawk US. Fish Commission, st. 146 (6074), 15 m: 1 juv. male, 1 juv. female ( USNM 23766).

Suriname, R/V Coquette USFWS, st. 212, 14.vi.1957, mud, 43 m, L.B. Holthuis det.: 1 juv. female ( USNM 103293).

Type locality. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA.

Description. See Williams (1984).

Remarks. Large and small individuals of S. carolinensis look very different from each other. In large individuals the carapace anterolateral teeth are remarkably stronger and much more pronounced than in smaller ones, in which the last anterolateral tooth may even be no more than a prominent granule ( Fig. 1A, B View FIGURE 1. A – B, D, E ). Small and medium size individuals of S. carolinensis and S. lobatus are very similar in respect to the carapace anterolateral teeth ( Figs. View FIGURE 1. A – B, D, E

1B; 2C. See also Felder & Rabalais, 1986). Speocarcinus carolinensis , however, can be separated from S. lobatus by (i) the branchiostegal region of the carapace with dispersed distinct granules, but no transversal row of granules ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3. A – D ) (one distinct transversal row of granules in S. lobatus , Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3. A – D ); (ii) the ocular peduncle is smooth ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4. A – B ) (ocular peduncle distinctly granular in S. lobatus ); (iii) male abdominal segment 2 free, not intercalated between edges of abdominal segments 3–5 ( Fig. 6B View FIGURE 6. A – F ) (male abdominal segment 2 partially intercalated between edges of abdominal segments 3–5 in S. lobatus , fig. 6D).

Small male and female individuals of S. carolinensis also closely resemble S. monotuberculatus , from which they can be separated by the absence of a dorsal median tubercle on abdominal segment 2, whereas in S. monotuberculatus the male and female abdominal segment 2 has one dorsal median tubercle ( Felder & Rabalais 1986).

Distribution. North Carolina (south of Cape Hatteras) to the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, between 15 and 43 m deep.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

Family

Xanthidae

Genus

Speocarcinus

Loc

Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859

Brandão, Marianna, Coelho-Filho, Petronio Alves & Tavares, Marcos 2012
2012
Loc

Speocarcinus carolinensis

Brandao 2010: 137
Camp 1998: 148
Williams 1984: 437
Herbst 1978: 993
Powers 1977: 116
Felder 1973: 71
Guinot 1969: 707
Serene 1964: 194
Holthuis 1959: 235
Tesch 1918: 46
Rathbun 1901: 11
Faxon 1895: 236
1895
Loc

Speocarcinus carolinensis

Stimpson 1859: 59
1859
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